Higgys Bears Privacy Statement

Higgys Bears cares about and respects your privacy. For this reason, we collect and use personal data only as it might be needed for us to deliver to you our products, services and websites (collectively, our "Services"). Your personal data includes information such as:

Name

Address

Telephone number

Date of birth

Email address

Other data collected that could directly or indirectly identify you

Our Privacy Policy is intended to describe to you how and what data we collect, and how and why we use your personal data. It also describes options we provide for you to access, update or otherwise take control of your personal data that we process. If at any time you have questions about our practices or any of your rights described below, you may reach our Data Protection Officer ("DPO") by contacting them at emelia@higgysbears.co.uk. This inbox is actively monitored and managed so that we can provide you with information you can confidently trust.

Manage your cookies

Our website uses cookies, which help us to improve our site and enables us to deliver the best possible service and customer experience. By using this website, you consent to cookies being used for the following purposes:

Analytics.

Tools that collect anonymous data about how visitors use our site and how it performs. We use this to improve our products, services and user experience.

Essential.

Tools that enable essential services and functionality, including identity verification, service continuity and site security. Opt out is not available.

What information do we collect?

We collect information to provide the best possible experience when you use our Services. Much of what you consider personal data is collected directly from you when you:

create an account or purchase any of our products (e.g.: billing information, including name, email address);

﻿complete contact forms or request newsletters or other information from us (e.g.: email address)﻿

However, we also collect additional information when delivering our Services to you to ensure necessary and optimal performance. These methods of collection may not be as obvious, so we wanted to explain what these might be (as they vary from time to time) and how they work:

Account related information is collected in association with your use of our Services, such as account number, products you have purchased, when products renew or expire, information requests, support requests, and notes or details on our interactions.

Cookies and similar technologies on our websites allow us to track your browsing behaviour, links clicked, items purchased, and your device types. They also allow us to collect data (including analytics) about how you use and interact with our Services. This allows us to provide you with more relevant product offerings, a better experience on our sites and mobile applications, and to collect, analyse, and improve the performance of our Services. We may also collect your location via Internet Protocol (IP) address, so that we can personalise our Services. For additional information about cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

Data about Usage of Services is automatically collected when you use and interact with our Services, including metadata, log files, cookie/device IDs, and location information. This information includes specific data about your interactions with the features, content, and links (including third-parties, such as social media plugins) contained within the Services, IP address, browser type and settings (including configuration and plug-ins), the date and time the Services were used, language preferences and cookie data, and information about devices accessing the Services, including type of device, what operating system is used, device settings, application IDs, unique device identifiers, and error data. Some of this data collected might be capable of and be used to approximate your location.

How we use information.

We strongly believe in both reducing the amount of data we collect and limiting the use and purpose of that data to only:

Data for which we have been given permission

Data necessary to deliver the Services you purchase or interact with

Data we might be required or permitted to keep for legal compliance or other lawful purposes.

These uses include: Delivering, improving, updating, and enhancing the Services we provide to you. We collect information relating to your purchase, use, and/or interactions with our Services. We utilise this information to:

Improve and optimise the operation and performance of our Services (again, including our websites and mobile applications)

Diagnose problems with and identify any security risks, errors, or needed enhancements to the Services

Detect and prevent fraud and abuse of our Services and systems

Collecting aggregate statistics about use of the Services

Understand and analyse how you use our Services and what products and services are most relevant to you.

Often, much of the data we collect is aggregated or statistical data about how individuals use our Services, and is not linked to any personal data, but as it is itself personal data, or it can be linked or linkable to personal data, we treat it accordingly.

Communicating with you. We may contact you directly, or through a third-party service provider, regarding products or services you have signed up or purchased from us, such as necessary to deliver transactional or service related communications. We may also contact you with offers for additional services we think you'll find valuable if you give us consent, or where allowed based upon legitimate interests. You don't need to provide consent as a condition to purchase our goods or services. These contacts may include:

Email

Text (SMS) messages

Telephone calls

Website analytics. We use Google Analytics to collect information about how you interact with our website, including what pages you visit, what site you visited prior to visiting our website, how much time you spend on each page, what operating system and web browser you use, and network and IP information. We use the information provided by this tool to improve our Services. Google Analytcis place persistent cookies in your browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our website. Each cookie cannot be used by anyone other than the service provider (eg: Facebook and Google for Google Analytics). The information collected from the cookie may be transmitted to and stored by these service partners on servers in a country other than the country in which you reside. Though information collected does not include personal data such as name, address, billing information, etc., the information collected is used and shared by these service providers in accordance with their individual privacy policies.

Third-party websites. Our website and our mobile applications contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of third-party sites. Please read the privacy policy of any website you visit.

How you can access, update or delete your data.

To easily access, view, update, delete, or port your personal data (where available), or to update your subscription preferences, please sign into your Account. If you make a request to delete your personal data and that data is necessary for the products or services you have purchased, the request will be honoured only to the extent it is no longer necessary for any Services purchased or required for our legitimate business purposes or legal or contractual record keeping requirements. If you are unable for any reason to access your Account Settings, you may also contact us by using the "Contact Us" link on our website.

Changes in our Privacy Policy.

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes to this Privacy Policy and any other places we deem appropriate, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page, at least thirty (30) days prior to the implementation of the changes.

Contact us.

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about our Privacy Policy, our practices, or our Services, you may contact our Office by email at emelia@higgysbears.co.uk.

We will respond to all requests, inquiries or concerns within thirty (30) days.